The yearbook is a set of memories. Your year book theme must be able to do honor to those memories in a way that accurately represents the whole school in general and the senior year class in particular if we're talking about your high school yearbook.

Yearbook Themes – Three To Get Ready

Yearbook themes must be effective in accurately representing the school culture and tradition.

They must "show off" the school year and present in special ways, the many students who contribute to the character of your school.

Choosing among all available year book themes can be difficult. Most schools have a yearbook committee that decides on a theme.

There are three major year book components to consider in the initial stages. The year book theme chosen must be able to:

Work for the desired cover and end sheet options

Be applied consistently throughout the yearbook

Be used in every section

Finding a theme that can be applied to almost any activity in your school is more difficult than it may appear. It requires thought and a good general knowledge of your school’s students and character.

Year book Themes – Four To Go

The key to choosing a good yearbook theme is to pick one that offers an opportunity for creativity. Spinning-off the main theme is how to make the theme usable throughout your yearbook. The theme must be applicable to four school symbols.

Logo

Design

Slogan

Mascot

For example, if the school mascot were a dog, you would not choose a theme that only involves birds. This seems so obvious, but finding the right year book theme requires an ability to look ahead to the final product.

There are yearbook companies that can assist with choosing the right yearbook theme. Years of experience with yearbook planning means they can offer suggestions and insight into the yearbook creation process. They often have a list of themes used in the past that can be used to generate new ideas.

Each year students look forward to the yearbook coming out. It is a treasure that preserves memories.

One day you, when older, will pull out your yearbook, blow the dust off and say, "Let me tell you about my class theme…."